Word: branch
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...Lima. Officials took every precaution in the standoff, not least because Texas is the place that saw the Waco conflagration. (Earlier in the week, the Denver trial of Timothy McVeigh, who was allegedly motivated by Waco, was placed under tighter security after three men with ties to the Branch Davidians were arrested in a raid in Colorado in which FBI agents confiscated explosives.) Thus, arrayed in Fort Davis, Texas, against McLaren, his wife and five lieutenants were officers of the Texas department of public safety, Texas Rangers, border-patrol agents, Texas National Guard troops, Texas parks and wildlife agents...
...needed to know this information to develop appropriate programs and services," said Len J. Thomas, director of the center, a branch of the Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP...
...strawberry workers want to join the United Farm Workers (UFW), the branch of the AFL-CIO founded by Cesar Chavez, which has fought for and won better living conditions and benefits for employees in the wine-grape, rose and mushroom industries and which has led an important boycott against the table-grape industry for continuing to spray their fields and the nearby neighborhoods with oil-based toxic pesticides. Harvard has participated in the table-grape boycott since the 1980s, and we hope their active participation in that fight will inspire their thinking about the strawberry pickers...
...country, the First Daughter has decided to head as far from Washington, D.C. as she can go, to join the Class of 2001 on the richly-endowed Palo Alto campus. Why not Georgetown, the President's alma mater, or Wellesley, Mrs. Clinton's? "I think she wanted to branch out and be her own person," the First Lady said. Thanks to her admirably protective parents, she?ll get that chance...
...Conservative thinkers have suggested a communal triage that would concentrate on a congregation's observant "core" rather than chasing those on the "periphery." Meanwhile, Rabbi David Hollander, a leader of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, a vocal minority group within the Orthodox movement (the smallest and most traditional American branch), fumes: "In a generation or two, we won't know who is and who is not a Jew. " The wrangle, never dormant, has been inflamed recently by Israeli religious politics and a statement by Hollander's rump group that "Reform and Conservative are not Judaism...